TY175: Todays Progress

I realised that I'd not removed the old swing arm spindle and bushes before I sent the arm off for painting. So, with trepidation, I removed the old bushes, cleaned up the spindle and put new bushes in, along with new shim washers, grease nipple and dust caps. I then fitted the arm.

I bought a cheap pair of shocks from eBay that look just about correct, but probably don't perforn brilliantly. But, as I don't intend to ride this bike much, I'd rather it looked the part.

Here's an extract of a press photo to show how close the shocks are (or aren't!)

I went on to loosley mount the foot pegs. I had some pattern foot peg springs that I used, but, they don't sit perfectly. I'll need to see if I can get NOS springs, that hopefully fit better. That can wait for now though. I also fitted the stand, with NOS genuine spring, nut and bolt.

All threads have copaslip on them. I sat the seat loosely in place too.

This is satisfying!

TY175: Seat Finished

I bolted the newly zinced brackets on the seat, and added the 4 NOS rubber dampers, to complete the seat unit.

NVT125: Seat Back From Restorer

I haven't posted any 'before' pics, so, here's a set of 'before' and 'after' images:

Another excellent job by Andrew Leighton at RK Leighton. Although I may redo the rear bracket at some stage, with some filler paint, or similar, rust to lose the slight rust pits.

TY175: Seat Back From Restorer

Remember this....

Now looks like this...

To say I'm impressed, is an understatement!

I have new rubbers, and am getting the brackets zinc'ed, more photos when complete, and cleaned up a bit.

Huge thanks to Andrew Leighton at RK Leighton.

TY175: Seat Preparation

As I'm not using the Sammy Miller seat / tank unit, I bought a used seat from eBay.

I've stripped off the homemade seat cover, and removed the brackets from the seat pan - snapping a couple of bolts in the process. The seat foam doesn't look too bad, but the pan needs a bit of work. I called Andrew Leighton at RK Leighton who gave me an estimate of c£80 to totally refurb the whole seat, inc new seat cover. So, I've sent it off.

Here's what he's working with.

 underside of pan

top of pan

underside of foam

 top of foam

handmade seat cover

style of cover I've asked for

close ups of pan

 brackets, etc, from pan